RE: X-RAYS

Last year I brought home a Geiger meter from work. Found normal background
readings at both the television and the uprights, measured in front and
behind the tubes.

James Hagen

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> [mailto:owner-vectorlist@synthcom.com]On Behalf Of Christopher X.
> Candreva
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:40 AM
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> Subject: Re: VECTOR: X-RAYS
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>
> On Sun, 25 May 2003, John Robertson wrote:
>
> > And a better representation of the other article I posted previously:
> >
> > http://www.belljar.net/xray.htm
>
> I found this line particularly interesting:
>
> Before turnng on the power, make sure that you have an operating x-ray
> monitor. This will be needed for checking tubes for output as
> well as for
> checking the effectiveness of the shielding. Bob uses a simple Geiger
> counter circuit which was provided as a kit from Electronic
> Goldmine (P.O.
> Box 5408, Scottsdale, AZ 85261).
>
> If a Geiger counter will detect X-rays, then that would be a
> fairly easy way
> to test the monitors.
>
> Except I don't see that kit at Goldmine, and a Google search
> isn't bringing
> up anything less than $150.
>
> Another simple way, if you know a dentist, would be to borrow
> some of those
> small X-ray films he has you put in your mouth, stick them near
> the monitor
> for a while, and have him develop them.
>
> My cousin happens to be a dentist -- and I happen to have helped
> him buy his
> Ms. Pac Man machine, so I may try this. I asked him this weekend
> if and how
> he tested his machine. He said he had put films around the exam room when
> he first opened, left them there for a few weeks, and they showed nothing.
>
>
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